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kudos:2 | Re: Just got Docsis 3 upstream update this week Awesome, yes. But very, VERY expensive (remember, line losses increase as frequency increases). | |
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | Still rocking SB5100 Comcast can't even saturate my old SB5100 here in Atlanta. I'm supposed to get 12/2 service but it's more like 8/1 on a good day. I'll buy a D3 modem when they actually can provide good service... maybe by 2020 or so.
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You may very well be getting 8/1 on a good day *because* of your SB5100. Buying a D3 modem will provide you with bonded downstream with four channels.
You're complaining about the traffic on a one-lane road. Move to the four lane road. While you don't intend on exceeding the speed limit, the additional lanes provide far more options... | |
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| | fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by CSD8086:?
You may very well be getting 8/1 on a good day *because* of your SB5100. Buying a D3 modem will provide you with bonded downstream with four channels.
You're complaining about the traffic on a one-lane road. Move to the four lane road. While you don't intend on exceeding the speed limit, the additional lanes provide far more options...
So you're saying Comcast is advertising something they can't deliver. I'm promised 12/2 service WITH my SB5100 modem. The SB5100 is more than capable of delivering 12/2 service, I shouldn't have to spend more money for something I have no need.
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by iansltx:Hey now, he was just offering a solution to your problem. Spreading your bandwidth over multiple channels tends to give you more bandwidth, alleviating the low speed issue you have now...but that would reduce the number of things you could complain about 
If you weren't getting what you pay for, no doubt you'd complain as well.
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kudos:2 | Re: Still rocking SB5100 I'd also do something about it | |
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by iansltx:I'd also do something about it
I do. I call Comcast and take up time with their tech support every week. They should not advertise what they cannot deliver. Why don't they come right out and tell me they cannot deliver their service reliably unless I obtain a new device? Why do they repeatedly tell me my device is fully supported? I guess I'm just not as eager to bend over and spread 'em as some other people.
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Still rocking SB5100 A D3 modem would likely help you out as it spreads the load across multiple channels. Maybe phone support people don't know to tell you this, but you should know this as it is posted on these forums several times a day! | |
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| | | | | | | | fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by C_Chipperson:A D3 modem would likely help you out as it spreads the load across multiple channels. Maybe phone support people don't know to tell you this, but you should know this as it is posted on these forums several times a day!
So you're saying Comcast lies when they say they fully support the SB5100 for their service. When they "upgraded" my neighborhood, I was told there was no need for new equipment, that I was fully supported unless I wanted to subscribe to one of the newer high-speed packages. But, I guess that was yet another lie from Comcast. They continually try to foist their modem rental upon me, I guess this is done intentionally to force people to just give up and ream them for more money each month.
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Utica, MI | Re: Still rocking SB5100 We gave you the solution to your problem. Does anyone really care if you don't believe us and would rather rant about Comcast? Probably not. | |
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| | | | | | | | | fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by mix:We gave you the solution to your problem. Does anyone really care if you don't believe us and would rather rant about Comcast? Probably not.
No, you did not provide a solution. You provided a work-around that doesn't address the actual issue. There is a difference.
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Utica, MI | If you owned a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, you would get the full speed of the service you paid for, because your connection will be balanced between multiple channels. Plenty of people on many different cable isp's have reported this. | |
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| | fuziwuziNot born yesterdayPremium
join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by mix:If you owned a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, you would get the full speed of the service you paid for, because your connection will be balanced between multiple channels. Plenty of people on many different cable isp's have reported this.
Again, Comcast is promising me 12/2 service WITH the SB5100 modem I already have. So, no, I am not getting the service I pay for and am promised and I shouldn't have to purchase new equipment to get what they promise with my present equipment.
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Schaumburg, IL | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by fuziwuzi:Again, Comcast is promising me 12/2 service WITH the SB5100 modem I already have. So, no, I am not getting the service I pay for and am promised and I shouldn't have to purchase new equipment to get what they promise with my present equipment. Remember the key words: UP TO | |
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join:2003-08-05
Madison, AL
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| Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by andyross:said by fuziwuzi:Again, Comcast is promising me 12/2 service WITH the SB5100 modem I already have. So, no, I am not getting the service I pay for and am promised and I shouldn't have to purchase new equipment to get what they promise with my present equipment. Remember the key words: UP TO +1 | |
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| | | | | said by fuziwuzi:said by mix:If you owned a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, you would get the full speed of the service you paid for, because your connection will be balanced between multiple channels. Plenty of people on many different cable isp's have reported this.
Again, Comcast is promising me 12/2 service WITH the SB5100 modem I already have. So, no, I am not getting the service I pay for and am promised and I shouldn't have to purchase new equipment to get what they promise with my present equipment. You're complaining like you are sitting behind a router that can handle the traffic, but the 400mhz Pentium II that you're browsing with isn't cutting it on the data rate. | |
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by talz13:said by fuziwuzi:said by mix:If you owned a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, you would get the full speed of the service you paid for, because your connection will be balanced between multiple channels. Plenty of people on many different cable isp's have reported this.
Again, Comcast is promising me 12/2 service WITH the SB5100 modem I already have. So, no, I am not getting the service I pay for and am promised and I shouldn't have to purchase new equipment to get what they promise with my present equipment. You're complaining like you are sitting behind a router that can handle the traffic, but the 400mhz Pentium II that you're browsing with isn't cutting it on the data rate. Sorry, but I have a Linksys E3000 running Tomato and an i7 3.4GHz with 8GB DDR3. Comcast just provides crappy service. It didn't used to, a year ago I got great speeds. Even discounting Powerboost, I would regularly get the full 12/2 speeds. But, after their "upgrade" to my neighborhood, speed declined. Calls to tech support get nothing, as long as they can ping my modem they don't care. My cellphone is faster, and some days I do tether to the phone if I really want to get something downloaded quickly.
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| | | | | | | Re: Still rocking SB5100 You don't want to here it: "Your modem is the problem." "You'd get that speed if your modem quit dropping the packets." "It's an analog issue, not the speed of the modem. But a faster modem can make up for it."
I had one that wasn't even doing 256Kb downloads or staying connected for more than 10 minutes and then took it in and got another with the same firmware revision and model number. I got speeds of 15Mb+ when downloading and a rock-solid connection. Modems can die or misbehave due to analog (read:RF/radio) problems inside the black box.
The modem has a maximum rate that it can handle and this varies even among the exact same model and firmware. If a modem is capable of 5Mb/s on each channel and can handle 4 channels, then it'll get the promised 20Mb/s but just barely and maybe lost packets until dropped to 15Mb/s. A modem that can handle only 2 channels but 6Mb/s each will get only 12Mb/s downloads even though other modems with the same design will get anywhere from 8 to 20 as they age. Yes, radios get old and some are well beyond specs while others are just barely in. | |
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | Re: Still rocking SB5100 said by Joe232 :I think the point trying to be made is that your modem is the 400MHz Pentium II. It's the bottleneck. Most ISP's won't even allow them on higher-speed plans precisely because of your issue. Or they make you acknowledge that the older modem might not even be able to handle that speed stably. I don't mean to be mean but either the modem or the speed tier would be gone if it was me.
I'm not asking for one of the higher speed plans that requires a DOCSIS3 modem. I simply want the service I've had for several years now, that up until their "upgrade" worked just fine. Comcast continues to sell the 12/2 service and continues to tell me it only requires a DOCSIS2 modem, and continues to say that the SB5100 is a supported modem for the service level which I subscribe. If their service actually does require a DOCSIS3 modem, then they should inform me of that and stop lying about their service. Is it too much to ask for the company to be honest?
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join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Broadband really started with @Home I seem to remember that cable modems were the first mass-market broadband. ISDN was a joke. Once @Home started taking off, DSL expansion and all the rest followed.
I found a CableLabs/DOCSIS history page here:
»www.cablelabs.com/anniversary/data.html
I actually can't remember if @HOME started offering service before DOCSIS 1.0, I think so. | |
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| | | Re: Broadband really started with @Home Cable Broadband started with @Home and died with @Home, since Concast took over they have done nothing but limit its potential with invisible caps and now the 250GB joke of a cap. I am just glad Verizon has upgraded me to FiOS and now I have a connection that can smoke anything Cable can offer now and in the future and all with no caps, they are also standing up to the BS fishing lawsuits instead of just giving in. | |
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| Re: Copper is Dead Just an FYI, I have done plenty of speed tests on coax that are atleast as impressive as yours (including that sub 5ms ping time). | |
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Salt Lake City, UT | Re: Copper is Dead said by tim tim tim:Just an FYI, I have done plenty of speed tests on coax that are atleast as impressive as yours (including that sub 5ms ping time). Post your comparable upload speed and keep in mind that I'm paying $45/month for symmetrical 100Mbps FTTH: »www.xmission.com/utopia#more | |
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1 edit | Re: Copper is Dead said by MrRuckus:Keep in mind he also has a cap. Per the page he linked to: 1TB/Month. True its greater then Comcast residential service, but when you get into UNLIMITED bandwidth, even their prices are off the wall @ $350/month. I would keep my Comcast Business Class with almost the same download and half the upload for less then one 3rd the cost and NO CAP. Once caps come into play, your fiber doesn't look too appetizing. Compared to Cable anyway.
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Why are you having to dig up a stale Comcast speedtest from 1April!? Was that your best test ever and you can no longer attain these? If this was your best, the upload is still gimped compared w/FTTH!! 
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join:2007-02-19
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kudos:2 | Congrats, you live where most of us don't. For the rest of us, 50/15 or 105/20 (with the associated expense) are what we have to live with...with higher ping times even to the first hop *shrugs*. | |
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2 edits | On a 1GHz system
Cable has 5.3Gigbit/s or 5,300mbps
11.7gig on 2.2GHz system.
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join:2002-04-05
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kudos:1 | Re: Copper is Dead There are no 2.2ghz systems, unless your talking about Directv. | |
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| | | LUCKY!!, fastest we can get in town is 10.....thats it, what i wouldnt do for 50 gosh lol | |
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| Core0000Premium
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Somerset, KY | If that speed was a woman, I'd bang it. That's how hot that is.. and that beautiful sexy 3ms ping..*falls over* | |
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| ftth is too expensive. With the costs of FTTH, this is a much better alternative.
Cable is already able to do 100+ down (if I remember correctly Comcast demonstrated 1gps down on live plant?) Its not the capability that's lacking, its the need. 95% of households are perfectly fine with 10/1 service so investing millions for less than 5% who aren't happy with the 40-50/5ish services already offered isn't logical, yet.
The FTTH speeds dont look so impressive when you look at where cable is at when you figure the cost difference between the 2. Its only a matter of time until they increase the spectrum for the upstream. Its too noisy in the sub low band to do much more than a 64qam (which is already a huge challenge) so there going to have gain more spectrum. | |
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| | | Re: ftth is too expensive. Here, DOCSIS3 plans are up to 250mbps, so very easy to do 100mbps.
And the Comcast user who can't get 12/2 with a SB510x, DOCSIS3 will likely help you, it might not. The SB510x modems will only use one channel, a number of them on your node doing lots of traffic, will saturate the single channel, DOCSIS3, will use 2-8 channels, spreading the traffic out to different channels on compatible modems.
Single channel is ~38mbps, so if you have 3 modems trying to do 12/2, that will work, but there is not enough bandwidth to do 4 modems at full speed on DOCSIS2 on a node.
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Unlike telephone cable , coax is not the barrier for speed. Just like fiber its the equipment at either end thats the problem.
Also they are looking into basically having docsis over fiber. This will allow cablecompanies to roll out fiber to new construction while still using coax.
The cable companies do not have to upgrade to fttp anytime soon. Heck even Verizon stopped their roll out. | |
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| It's nice but... ...it's for the privileged few that can actually justify spending $100/month for high speed DOCSIS 3.0 service. Cable providers really need to work on bringing down the stratospheric cost of DOCSIS 3.0 service to mid-tier levels.
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| current modems? so this will be a firmware upgrade?
still, that doesn't mean cable companies are going to offer faster upload speeds. they are unlikely to offer symmetric broadband any time soon, but they could easily double or triple current speeds offered on mid-tier & low tier plans.
50/8 offered by cablevision could easily match 50/20 (by Verizon) with upstream bonding... bit for bit under docsis 3.1 | |
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| | | Re: current modems? CV can already do 50/20 with the current setup as they do 101/15 (closer to 18) now with the "ULTRA" tier. Once everyone is moved to digital then they can do upstream bonding on 4 channels and and 8 down and do a 200/50Mbps plan easily. The problem is always the cost for them and for users, they might not want to pay for it. | |
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|  tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
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| said by tmc8080:so this will be a firmware upgrade?
I don't think so.
what they are talking about is, more freq's, in ranges not planned for under D3, and rather than having 2 tuners/chips, seeking sets of 4 channels, having multi tuners capturing 4-8+ channals individually and switching as needed (this is 100 times as complex as D3)
D3 along with other techniques will extend regularspeed/service upgrades for the 5-10 years it takes for this to FULLY deploy, But don't expect petabit speeds tomorrow.
so some new hardware will most likely be needed at home for the highest speeds, most others can continue as they are (which is the 99% who drive the market)
BTW between the newest splits offered the 200Mhz split look best to me (usable/overlayable on current physical plants) even if it doesn't yield MAX speeds forever. | |
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| said by tmc8080:so this will be a firmware upgrade?
still, that doesn't mean cable companies are going to offer faster upload speeds. they are unlikely to offer symmetric broadband any time soon, but they could easily double or triple current speeds offered on mid-tier & low tier plans.
50/8 offered by cablevision could easily match 50/20 (by Verizon) with upstream bonding... bit for bit under docsis 3.1
No, this will be a network upgrade. They would have to hit every active device in the network and change the diplex filter on top of devices in the head end.
Also, symmetric broadband isnt needed by 99% of users. Very very few people need to upload THAT much data from a home, residential account. | |
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join:2002-01-19
Santa Clara, CA | Re: current modems? said by tim tim tim:Also, symmetric broadband isnt needed by 99% of users. Very very few people need to upload THAT much data from a home, residential account.
Still stuck in the distant past?
Ever heard of cloud services?
With banana republic infrastructure such services are not reachable. | |
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Somerset, KY Reviews:
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| I have time warner... Anyways, they just bought out newwave in my area, or its legit now. And if I understand correctly they still have the Docsis 2.xx something here.. Hell will freeze over before 3.0. No competition. It sucks....
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